80
This surprising lumberpunk simulator delivers an addictive city-building experience through its unique verticality and deep water management mechanics. The distinct factions add significant variety to survival strategy, yet a frustrating lack of tutorials for complex systems hinders accessibility. Despite some underdeveloped features like district management, it remains a refreshingly original and polished post-apocalyptic challenge.
100
One of the most fascinating and intricately designed city-building games ever made, Timberborn is a charming and joyous experience that is as rewarding as it is challenging.
85
The game offers an original and thoughtful building simulator, which stands out especially for its emphasis on water management and active environment modification. Despite the absence of a story mode and occasional repetitiveness, it offers a deep and satisfying strategic experience.
8
The beavers of Timberborn are such a delight to watch from the small survival group to the wooden metropolis of tomorrow. Choosing between two factions, Timberborn is a fantastic city builder with a surprising amount of depth. A fantastic tutorial showing each step without being obnoxious, focusing on the design of your city as well as the growth of your beaver citizens.Timberborn presents plenty of creativity, visual and audio charm, as well as wonderful atmosphere. It does however feel more sandbox since there isn’t much direction outside of just growing your city. Once the major city issues like water,power, and supply have been solved, not much disaster awaits you anymore. Still a dam good addition to the genre we feel players will enjoy thoroughly.
8
De los city-builders más entretenidos que he jugado. No por los castores en si, sino por la forma en que tenés que encarar cada escenario, la importancia del agua y los recursos. Elementos survivors con las sequías lo hacen aun mejor.
10
Best city builder of the year. Good mechanics and very challenging !
Good beaver !
Timberborn
Released On:
Mar 12, 2026
Metascore
Generally Favorable
85
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Mixed or Average
7.0
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Apr 8, 2026
100
One of the most fascinating and intricately designed city-building games ever made, Timberborn is a charming and joyous experience that is as rewarding as it is challenging.
Mar 26, 2026
90
Timberborn is one of the most interesting city builders in years with a charming style, unique lore, and mechanics that are easy to understand but tough to master.
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Mar 26, 2026
10
Best city builder of the year. Good mechanics and very challenging !
Good beaver !
Mar 19, 2026
10
Charming but challenging city builder. You think about improving one dam and it's already morning.
Apr 1, 2026
85
The game offers an original and thoughtful building simulator, which stands out especially for its emphasis on water management and active environment modification. Despite the absence of a story mode and occasional repetitiveness, it offers a deep and satisfying strategic experience.
Mar 12, 2026
85
Timberborn has spent a long time in early access now, and all that time was clearly worth it because the game is incredibly well-crafted with only a few minor caveats. If you are looking for a city builder with a more naturalistic tone and some cute beavers to protect, this might be the one for you.
Mar 24, 2026
82
Timberborn is a good, almost natural, marriage of two genres that couldn’t quite surpass its own issues to become something greater than the sum of its parts. Late mechanics implementation, lower replayability than expected for a 1.0, and unhelpful tutorials all drag down an otherwise amazing game. There’s much holding it back and much holding it up, amounting to a great, but imperfect title overall.
Apr 13, 2026
80
This surprising lumberpunk simulator delivers an addictive city-building experience through its unique verticality and deep water management mechanics. The distinct factions add significant variety to survival strategy, yet a frustrating lack of tutorials for complex systems hinders accessibility. Despite some underdeveloped features like district management, it remains a refreshingly original and polished post-apocalyptic challenge.
Mar 12, 2026
70
An engaging city builder with a novel concept centering water power and possibilities in industrialisation and giga-projects. But the daily lives of the inhabitants suffer from monotony
Apr 27, 2026
8
The beavers of Timberborn are such a delight to watch from the small survival group to the wooden metropolis of tomorrow. Choosing between two factions, Timberborn is a fantastic city builder with a surprising amount of depth. A fantastic tutorial showing each step without being obnoxious, focusing on the design of your city as well as the growth of your beaver citizens.Timberborn presents plenty of creativity, visual and audio charm, as well as wonderful atmosphere. It does however feel more sandbox since there isn’t much direction outside of just growing your city. Once the major city issues like water,power, and supply have been solved, not much disaster awaits you anymore. Still a dam good addition to the genre we feel players will enjoy thoroughly.
Mar 28, 2026
8
De los city-builders más entretenidos que he jugado. No por los castores en si, sino por la forma en que tenés que encarar cada escenario, la importancia del agua y los recursos. Elementos survivors con las sequías lo hacen aun mejor.
SummaryHumans are long gone. Will your lumberpunk beavers do any better?
A city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, river control, and deadly droughts. Contains high amounts of wood.
